Moving right along
Oregon Politico's helpful listing of Oregon public employees' salaries and benefits continues, with the latest addition being Metro, Portland's often-spacey regional government. A senior animal keeper at the zoo can make north of $71,000 in salary a year; the guy running the "strategy center" for the Interstate Bridge replacement makes a cool $195,000 plus benefits. They're showing about 40 employees with base salaries of $100,000 or more.
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Not too bad 146 out of 729 people means 20% make > $100K. I'd guess median is somewhere around $85K pay.
What recession?
Oh dammit, I forgot they are much smarter than us and deserve that money for the make work stuff they do.
Posted by Steve | August 17, 2010 9:42 AM
I wonder why Metro's median income is approximately 175% that of the Portland Metro area?
Posted by the other white meat | August 17, 2010 10:24 AM
I wonder how Metro employees relative level of education and length of relevant experience compares to other workers in the Portland area.
Posted by Joey | August 17, 2010 10:57 AM
I wonder why we need Metro at all anymore.
Posted by daveg | August 17, 2010 12:21 PM
I wonder how Metro employees relative level of education and length of relevant experience compares to other workers in the Portland area.
I happen to know the answer: about the same. The number of 4-year and graduate degrees matches the metro area; "relevant experience" is a red herring, because (a) many of the Metro jobs have titles that overstate their actual job function, and (b) many are staffed by people that couldn't get a similar job elsewhere for such generous pay.
They let you blog from your government job, "Joey"? Nice.
Posted by the other white meat | August 17, 2010 1:12 PM
I'm with DaveG! Eliminate the entire agency. The Portland Metro Area did just fine before Metro ever came into being. The simple fact that almost no other area in the lower 48 states puts up with crap like Metro says a lot about how much they are "needed".
Posted by Dave A. | August 17, 2010 2:41 PM
Having worked with many of these employees, I can say with certainty that few would be able to hold down private sector jobs at anywhere near these wage levels.
Posted by BigSwede | August 17, 2010 5:46 PM
the other white meat: "I happen to know the answer: about the same."
Oh!? Great! It's really helpful that you provided ZERO references for your claim. I guess I'll take your word for it since you're an anonymous poster on a blog.
And no, I'm not an government employee. And no, I don't blog from work.
How about you? You blog from work at 1:15pm on a Tuesday?
Posted by Joey | August 19, 2010 3:17 PM